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Okay I played this one through. As far as I can tell this is a follow up to Fallout Area 21, contiuning on where you get stunsticked and the screen blacks out. You start imprisoned in the cargo area of some kind of vehicle, my first instincts were it was a train because of the way it shaked around, but it turns out to be some kind of Combine transport aircraft. (that’s new!) Anyway, the plane crashes for unknown reasons, killing one of the two-man crew, you escape and pick up a crowbar and the dead pilots SMG, and kill the remaning pilot who is being attacked by headcrabs. You then pass through a number of sandy caves until you come to an entrance to a hidden underground lab of some kind, Vault 7. This lab reminded me of Black Mesa to some extent, and also some parts of System Shock 2. It’s infested with, you guessed it, zombies. Luckily this isn’t TOO overdone, and I never tire of shotgunning zombies in the… well, headcrab. Moving on, the lab seems to have been researching headcrabs, and somehow these headcrabs all got loose and turned on their tormentors, since the only enemies you come across in the lab are headcrabs and the humans they’ve possessed. The level design is fairly interesting, most of the furniture is actually custom made and looks like futuristic-lab furniture. The lab has laboratories, living quarters and cargo areas, supplies are often found in interesting custom made supply cabinets, which you must bust padlocks off of to open. There are also a couple of custom items — some dynamite and a security card namely, the former you can use to blow a door open. The gameplay is fairly simple and a bit too easy, since you only face zombies and headcrabs which are pretty much the least dangerous foes, the fact that there are few fast or poison zombies compounds the lack of difficulty. A fairly quick play through of a level, but the level design is quite interesting and I found it enjoyable to play jsut for the atmosphere.

ya know IMO for an old map this isn’t half bad. yea its bland and you can pretty much get thru it just bashing heads with the crow bar. but again for a short play I kinda liked it.
With todays more polished maps/mods this was like playing an old Nintendo game as opposed to Wii

Not that they really go together in any fashion but you might want to play “fallout” first, both are on the FileFront Direct page above under “broken link”

Well I don’t know anything about a connection to Fallout or to a previous map, but this short map is not terrible and not great.

My main complaint is that it’s plain and boring. Nearly everything is on one floor and there’s little to no height to the map at all, let alone the combat. Which I’ll also complain about. It’s entirely too easy. You’re only up against zombies and headcrabs and a handful of antlions – but you’re given nearly the entire HL2 arsenal including a ton of contact grenades and AR2 grenades – plus an RPG – to deal with them, not to mention a ton of health and HEV power. I don’t think I was below 94 health the whole time.

This map may be worth a look if you’re bored and have a spare 20 minutes or so. Otherwise you can skip it.

This map is old and it definitely shows. I think that its biggest flaw is that – for today’s standards – it’s way too basic, and you can kind of see that the mapper was experimenting with the engine at the same time, by using Hammer functions that – as I said above – are considered outdated.

The map as a whole isn’t too bad though. You can see that the creator at least tried to make a decent map. The geometry is pretty simple, and the lighting isn’t really much better. The enemy placement was OK, but I think that there was WAY too much ammo. It’s funny because in other mods/maps I’ve complained about the lack of it. Also, one plus is that the map is actually long, which quite impressed me.

Overall, if you’ve got 15-20 minutes to spare, and you want to kill some zombies, then look no further.

This is a decent map, but there is so much ammo, healthkits, etc. that it just ends up feeling like a zombie map but with something to do. There isn’t really another way to put it. It’s rediculously easy.
Several times in the map you have to search for a certain item (a keycard, for example). These are sometimes really hard to find, I couldn’t an item at first because it was underneath a zombie’s body.
There are some horror elements here and there, but there is nothing done with it and it sometimes kind of feels out of place.
Play this when you want to shoot some zombies, otherwise I can not really recommend this.